Straightened the hanger...it was quite a way out, which may explain...along with other factors, the rattles of the original bike!
Fitted the rear wheel and sorted the brake arrangement.....taped the frame to stop the clamp damaging the paint.
I've also scrapped the original weird round knurled flat nut, that holds the torsion arm to the frame clamp....as to remove this required a long screwdriver through the spokes and a 7 mm spanner.....neither of which i ever carry in my tool kit! Without you can't get the wheel out to fix a flat! Oh Sturmey Archer.....again...wtaf were your engineering team thinking!
Also I'm thinking of a rack. I've got a broken original early 80s jim Blackburn....but it has a couple of busted welds....oh and its too big....and its missing its stays.....
. So ive actually got a few bits of alluminium rod.....time to rev up the welder.
I've fashioned some stays for it from a dead rack, bit of heating and bending.....im sure it will all be fine!
Chains on, its a bitza. Lighty used 8 speed kmc extended with a bit of left over sram.....the chain stays are loooooong. 480mm !
Well at least it will be stable....if not the most responsive hill climber ever!